Diversity Program 2021 FINAL

WELCOME
MARY POOTON
Assistant Dean for Development
University of Maryland School of Medicine
MARIA L. SOTO-GREENE, MD, MS-HPED, FACP
Executive Vice Dean
Professor of Medicine
Director, Hispanic Center of Excellence
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Honorary Chair
CYNTHIA EGAN
Chair, Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland School of Medicine
E. ALBERT REECE, MD, PHD, MBA
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, UM Baltimore
John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and
Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine
KRISTEN REAVIS, MD, MBS
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Director of Student Diversity and Inclusion
Residency Program Director
Director of Maternal Child Health
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
REMARKS
MARIA L. SOTO-GREENE, MD, MS-HPED, FACP

PRESENTATION OF THE DEAN’S FACULTY AWARD
FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
JAY S. MAGAZINER, PHD, MSHYG
Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
Director, Center For Research on Aging
University of Maryland School of Medicine
ASAF KELLER, PHD
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
PRESENTATION OF THE DEAN’S ALUMNI AWARD FOR
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
SANDRA M. QUEZADA, MD, MS ‘06
Associate Dean for Admissions
Assistant Dean for Academic & Multicultural Affairs
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
INTRODUCTION OF DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
RECIPIENTS
DONALD E. WILSON, MD, MACP, DSC (H)
Dean Emeritus, University of Maryland School of Medicine
STUDENT REMARKS
KAELA KUITCHOUA ‘24
Dean Emeritus Donald E. Wilson Endowed Scholarship Recipient
CAMERAN BURT ‘23
Second Year Medical Student
CLOSING REMARKS
MARIA L. SOTO-GREENE, MD, MS-HPED, FACP

Honorary Chair
Maria L. Soto-Greene, MD, MS-HPEd, FACP is
Professor and Executive Vice Dean at Rutgers New
Jersey Medical School (NJMS). Initially, Dr. Soto-
Greene focused on the care of the critically ill
patient, honing in on the significance of the
physician/patient communication, and the impact on
vulnerable patients and their loved ones. In her
current role, she oversees all aspects of undergraduate
medical education (admissions, student affairs,
education), faculty affairs, professional development,
accreditation, and diversity affairs.
Dr. Soto-Greene is committed to advancing the
school’s health equity and social justice education,
and community service. She has been funded by
federal and private agencies since the early 1990’s and has passionately worked to
create unparalleled opportunities for thousands of individuals underrepresented in
medicine and science. These programs support students at the pre-college level
through medical school faculty, contributing to career advancement and cultivating
the next generation of social justice champions. Equity, diversity, and inclusion is
threaded into everything that she does.
Equally important, Dr. Soto-Greene has been a leader in disseminating best practices
to other medical schools. She is a past Chair for the Association of American Medical
Colleges (AAMC) Group on Diversity and Inclusion and a past President of the
Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools. As part of the AAMC Medical
Education Senior Leaders group, she is currently on the Rapid Action Anti-Racism
Taskforce. Dr. Soto-Greene has been the proud recipient of numerous awards
recognizing her contributions to advancing diversity in academic medicine including
the 2014 Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Diversity Award, the 2017 Edward
J. Ill Physician’s Award, and the 2019 Rutgers University Clement A. Price Human
Dignity Award. Most notably, the AAMC awarded Dr. Soto-Greene with the 2019
Herbert W. Nickens Award for her exemplary contributions to promoting social
justice in medical education and health equities.
Dr. Soto-Greene received her B.S. degree in Medical Technology from Douglass
College, M.D. degree from New Jersey Medical School, completed her internal
medicine training at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey where she also served
as Chief Medical Resident, and obtained her Masters in Health Professions Education
at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She was also inducted as a faculty
member into the NJMS Beta Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor
Medical Society in 2001. Dr. Soto-Greene is a board certified internist and currently
serves as the LCME Faculty Accreditation Lead for New Jersey Medical School.

Dean’s Faculty Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Diane Marie M. St. George, PhD is an Associate
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and
Public Health (EPH) at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine (SOM). Dr. St. George joined
the SOM faculty in 2008 and currently serves as
the director of the Master of Public Health (MPH)
Program and the EPH Vice Chair of Academic
Programs. She holds a BS in Psychology, a BS in
Zoology and an MA in Health Education from the
University of Maryland College Park and a PhD in
Epidemiology from the University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill School of Public Health.
She completed a Fogarty-funded post-doctoral
fellowship at the Institute for Preventive and
Clinical Medicine in Bratislava, Slovakia and a Kellogg-funded post-doctoral
fellowship in community-based participatory research at the University of North
Carolina School of Public Health.
Dr. St. George is committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion and has
tried to exemplify that through her service, academic leadership, teaching and
research. She is a member of the SOM Diversity Advisory Council and a former
SOM representative to the University Diversity Advisory Council. She currently
serves as the Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Association
of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). ASPPH is the body
representing the accredited schools of public health and MPH programs housed
within schools of medicine or other health professions, like the UMSOM.
Dr. St. George is proud to lead the dedicated staff and faculty of the SOM MPH
Program. The program strives to attract and retain a student body that
exemplifies diversity across a number of domains. Further, she wants to ensure
that every student who enters our doors feels welcome, nurtured, supported and
prepared for graduation and beyond. As such, she teaches courses to MPH
students in their first and last semesters, helping to lay the framework for their
experience at both milestones in the program.
Throughout her career, Dr. St. George’s research interests have focused on the
health of underserved populations who suffer a disproportionate burden of
disease by virtue of race, socioeconomic status, place of residence, immigrant
status and other factors that place them at a disadvantage. She is very interested
in the school environment as an opportunity for health promotion and is
currently funded to work within a Baltimore school to explore the use of the
Youth Participatory Action Research Framework to identify and advance
interventions to address health issues of concern to students.

Dean’s Faculty Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Mary Kay Lobo, PhD is a Professor in the
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, co-
Director of the University of Maryland School of
Medicine (SOM) Center for Substance Use in
Pregnancy, and Chair of the Program in
Neuroscience (PiN) Diversity Committee. She is a
reviewing editor for the Journal of Neuroscience and
eLife. Dr. Lobo was born and raised in Los Angeles,
California. She received a B.S. in Biology and Ph.D.
in Neuroscience from the University of California,
Los Angeles. She performed her Postdoctoral
Fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern and
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She
joined the SOM faculty in 2011.
Dr. Lobo is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National
Institute of Drug Abuse, and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
Her research program uses cell type specific and circuit approaches combined with
molecular biology to uncover neurobiological mechanisms, within the complex brain, in
disrupted motivation and repetitive behaviors that are relevant for substance use
disorder, mood disorders, and stereotypy disorders. For her research efforts Dr. Lobo
was a 2011 Blavatnik for Young Scientist Regional Award Honoree, she received a 2016
One Mind Rising Star Award, and she was a 2017 recipient of a Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) through President Obama.
Dr. Lobo and her research team provide training and mentoring to visiting PhD,
Masters, and undergraduate students from diverse populations including from minority
serving institutions across the Unites States and Universities in Latin America. Dr. Lobo
is a mentor in the Center for Underrepresented Research in Addiction (CURA)
program, through City College of New York that promotes the advancement of
underrepresented junior faculty in drug addiction research. She serves on the steering
committee of the Mid-Atlantic Neuroscience Diversity Scholars (MiNDS) program,
through Temple University, which aims to bolster underrepresented minority student
representation within the neuroscience academic pipeline.
Dr. Lobo was previously the Director of Graduate Education for the PiN, where she
worked on efforts to increase the underrepresented student population. She continues
these efforts in her current role as Chair of the PiN Diversity committee. Through this
role she implemented education on bias and racism in neuroscience curriculum. Other
efforts include establishing a monthly PiN Diversity memo, which seeks to provide
pointers to educate, promote diversity and inclusion, and combat racism, while
highlighting trainees from diverse backgrounds that contribute to diversity and
inclusion in the neuroscience community and beyond.

Dean’s Alumni Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Robert B. Greifinger, MD ’71 is a health care
policy and quality management consultant.
His work focuses on the design, management,
and quality improvement in correctional
health care systems. He has extensive
experience in the development and
management of complex community and
institutional health care programs, and
strengths in the bridging of clinical and public
policy interests.
Dr. Greifinger, as a medical student at the
University of Maryland School of Medicine
(SOM), helped create the “Summer Program in Life Sciences” in 1970,
now known as our “Pre-Matriculation Summer Program”. In its
inception, this program was developed to enhance the preparation of
students from underrepresented backgrounds, with the intention of
diversifying the racial and socioeconomic diversity in the class,
recognizing the lack of diversity that existed.
Dr. Greifinger has published extensively in the area of correctional health
care. He has been a frequent speaker on public policy, communicable
disease control and quality management in corrections. Dr. Greifinger
was the principal investigator for the Report to Congress on Seizing
Public Health Opportunities through Correctional Health Care,
published in 2002. He was Co-Editor of the International Journal of
Prisoner Health from 2010 - 2016. Dr. Greifinger is the editor of Public
Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities, Springer, New York
2007 (Second Edition in press early 2021). He currently serves as the
Federal Court-appointed medical monitor for the jails in Miami, New
Orleans, and Albuquerque.

Dean Emeritus Donald E. Wilson Endowed
Scholarship Recipient
Kaéla Kuitchoua is a current first-year
student at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine (SOM). She
graduated from Emory University in
2018, where completed a Bachelor of
Science degree in Neuroscience and
Behavioral Biology. While at Emory,
she conducted research at the Yerkes
National Primate Research Center
studying the neurodevelopmental
effects of early life stress in a rhesus
monkey model.
Prior to medical school, Ms. Kuitchoua spent two years working for the
NIMH’s Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Branch through the NIH
Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Program. She used
neuroimaging and genetics to study patients with schizophrenia in order to
better understand the hereditary traits of the illness. During her time at the
NIH she also served as a Volunteer Coordinator for the NIH Academy, a
program for NIH postbacs to learn more about health disparities in
addition to volunteering in the Washington DC community.
Since coming to UMSOM, Ms. Kuitchoua has been volunteering with
Thread, an organization dedicated to providing resources to young people
in Baltimore facing academic and social challenges. She has also joined the
Combined Accelerated Program in Psychiatry (CAPP) elective track and is a
member of the School of Medicine’s Second Look Day Committee.
Ms. Kuitchoua was recently elected to be a Co-Vice President of UMSOM’s
Student National Medical Association chapter for the 2021-2022 academic
year. She is looking forward to the opportunity to support
underrepresented minority students and continuing to work towards
serving underserved communities as a medical student and throughout her
medical career.

The Dean Emeritus Donald E. Wilson Endowed
Scholarship Fund
The Dean Emeritus Donald E. Wilson Endowed Scholarship Fund was
created by alumni, faculty, and friends of the University of Maryland School
of Medicine to honor the legacy of Dr. Wilson and continue the School’s
enduring commitment to enhancing the diversity of the School’s students and
the medical profession. The Fund facilitates the recruitment of a bright,
diverse student body and helps ensure quality health care for all populations.
It provides financial assistance to students at the School of Medicine.
Dr. Wilson served as Dean of the School of Medicine from 1991 to 2006.
During his tenure, he was nationally recognized by the Association of
American Medical Colleges as a national leader and role model for increasing
racial and ethnic diversity in academic medicine among physician leaders,
faculty, staff, and students. Dr. Wilson was named Dean Emeritus upon his
retirement as Dean.
In 2000, Dr. Wilson was the Inaugural recipient of the Herbert Nickens
award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 2008, the
Association of American Medical Colleges awarded the Abraham Flexner
Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education to Dr. Wilson for his
extraordinary individual contributions to medical schools and to the
medical education community.
YOUR Support Makes a Difference
For more information about contributing to the Dean Emeritus Donald E.
Wilson Endowed Scholarship, or opportunities to support diversity
scholarships for medical students, please contact Mary Pooton, Assistant Dean
for Development, at 410-706-8503.
www.medschool.umaryland.edu/development

Thank You to Our Donors!
With sincere appreciation
to our donors.
Your support of the Dean Emeritus
Dr. Donald E. Wilson, Endowed
Scholarship, creates opportunities by
eliminating financial barriers and
inspires diverse generations of
physician leaders in serving all
communities through inclusive and
compassionate medical care.
Thank you!

The University of Maryland School of Medicine
would like to thank the generous sponsors of this event.
Presenting Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsor
Event Sponsors
Department of Anesthesiology
Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Department of OB, GYN and Reproductive Sciences
Department of Pathology & Department of Medical & Research Technology
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Psychiatry
Department of Radiation Oncology
UM Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
School of Medicine Diversity Advisory Committee
Shock Trauma Associates; Program in Trauma
Contributors
Department of Emergency Medicine
Department of Surgery
Department of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science